different between baggage vs equipage

English

Etymology

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, from bague (“bundle”), from Germanic (compare bag).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?g'?j, IPA^(key): /?bæ??d?/
• • Hyphenation: bag?gage
  • Rhymes: -æ??d?

Noun

baggage (usually uncountable, plural baggages)

1. (uncountable) Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling

Uncountable synonyms: luggage; gear; stuff

Countable synonyms: bags; suitcases

2. (uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.

   This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.
3. (obsolete, countable, derogatory) A woman.
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

   • 1964: My Fair Lady (film)

     Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?

4. (military, countable (obsolete) and uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.
   • 2007, Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945, New York: Penguin, p 305:

     In Poland, for example, the unknown Boles?aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French equippage, from equipper.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.kw?.p?d?/

Noun

equipage (countable and uncountable, plural equipages)

1. (uncountable) Equipment or supplies, especially military ones.
2. (obsolete) Military dress; uniform, armour etc.
3. A type of horse-drawn carriage.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 199:

     At this moment the carriage turned into the Prado; a thousand magnificent equipages, with plumed horses, superb caparisons, and beautiful women bowing to the cavaliers, who stood for a moment on the foot-board, and then bowed their adieus to the “ladies of their love,” passed before our eyes.

4. The carriage together with attendants; a retinue.

Translations

Verb

equipage (third-person singular simple present equipages, present participle equipaging, simple past and past participle equipaged)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To furnish with an equipage.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• equipagie (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French équipage, from Middle French esquipage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?ki?pa?.??/
• Hyphenation: equi?pa?ge
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

equipage f (plural equipages)

1. the crew, equipment and stock of a ship
2. a carriage with draught animals and tack
3. (obsolete) the equipment needed for travels [1612 - 19th c.]
   • 1612, G. A. Bredero & Reinier Telle, Het vierde deel vande tragedische of claechlijcke historien, fol. 153r.

Related terms

• equiperen